Schedule & Events 

(1) AERA 2026

Video Interaction Analysis Lab: Working Processes as Relation Building in Times of Unrest

Fri, April 10, 11:45am to 1:15pm PDT (2:45 to 4:15pm EDT), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 501A

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

In this working roundtable, we collectively wonder about the production and maintenance of sociotechnical relations while doing interaction analysis (IA), and the implications for describing and expanding the methodology of IA. Specifically, we seek to write into the record details of relationship building that are central to lab work but often remain unacknowledged by traditional monetary or academic currency. In the face of outcome-driven pressures to streamline the science-to-product trajectory, we argue not just for continuing to support basic science—the study of fundamental principles and concepts, regardless of their expected market value—but for acknowledging and uplifting the relational practices that make any investigation possible. More than mere infrastructure, however, we argue that these practices are also epistemological and theoretical.

Sub Unit: SIG Learning Sciences

Chair: Lana Ćosić

Papers:

• Analyzing in Community: The Generous and Generative Nature of Lab Relationships - Erica Lee Payne, Tessaly Jen

• Expanding Multiplicities as Warrants for Claims in Interaction Analysis - Candice Love

• “Welcome back to our channel!” – Reframing the Role of the Camera in Video Research - Lana Ćosić, Sarah Jaewon Lee,

• Interaction Analysis in Conversation with a Radical Black Politics of Visuality - Natalie Rae

• Engaging with the Hidden Record: Surfacing the Felt and More-Than-Human in Video Analysis - Lana Ćosić, Tessaly Jen, 

Session Organizer: Lana Ćosić

Discussants: Kate Champan, Bethany Daniel